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Webb Detects First Rich Population of Brown Dwarf Candidates outside Milky Way Galaxy


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a population of 64 brown dwarf candidates with masses ranging from 50 to 84 Jupiter masses in the star cluster NGC 602.

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